Apps and Affect Conference

Apps and Affect Conference

Apps and Affect 2013

An international conference to examine the relations between mobile apps and their networked/internet context presented by The Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) and the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University

About this App

This app is deliberately simple, using HTML, CSS and Javascript to create an 'everyday remix' app for the conference. It is designed for a practice-research workshop exploring web apps as objects, run by Paul Caplan. Because the workshop is designed to be participatory - and short - and for non-coders, it uses the most basic markup. 'Real' coders out there would write much cleaner, more efficient and powerful code even using just open standards.

Conference programme

OCTOBER 18, Friday

8:00 am - 8:45 am - Continental Breakfast (Community Gallery) / Registration (Centre Gallery)
8:45 am - 9:00 am - Opening remarks, conference greeting by:
- Nick Dyer-Witheford, Dean of FIMS
- Christopher Keep, Acting Director of CSTC
- Brian Meehan, Director of Museum London
9:00 am - 10:30 am - Keynote: Jodi Dean - Affective Collectivity: Apps and Drive (Lecture Theatre)
10:30 am - 10:45 am Coffee (All locations)
10:45 am - 12:15 pm - Panel 1: Gamification (Lecture Theatre)
- Moderator: Dan Mellamphy
- Aubrey Anable (University of Toronto) - Indie Game Apps and the Aesthetics of Failure
- Jessica Thom (Western) - A Hundred Points is Not Equivalent to A Hundred Pounds: The Gamification of Healthcare, Fitness, and Social Wellness
- Matthew Tiessen (Ryerson University) - The Gamification 'App'aratus: Incentivizing the Digital Modulation of Affect and Agency
10:45 am - 12:15 pm - Panel 2: Regulations of Affect (Board Room)
- Moderator: Nandita Biswas Mellamphy
- Henry Adam Svec (Western) - Sing Out: Smule Apps, Apple, and the Folk
- Jeremy Wade Morris (University of Wisconsin-Madison) -Enhanced and Disenchanted: App Albums and the Commodification of Digital Music
- Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen (University of Southern Denmark) - Apps and Affects in Museum Communication
10:45 am - 12:00 am - Panel 3: CulturePlex (Community Gallery)
- CulturePlex in Arts and Humanities
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch (Community Gallery)
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm - Panel 4: Politics of the Intimate and Desire (Lecture Theatre)
- Moderator: Ilya Merlin
- Evangelos Tziallas (Concordia University) - Grindr and the Formation of New Pornographic Narratives: Screening, (Dis)simulation, and Databanks
- Ricky Varghese (University of Toronto) - Intimate Loneliness: Queer Desire in the Scene of Apps
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm - Panel 5: Apps for That (Board Room)
- Moderator: Carole Farber
- Robbie Cormier (Stony Brook University) - Wolfram|Alpha and the All-Purpose App (APP)
- Gemma Richardson (Western) - Feeling Suicidal? There's an App for That
- Julie Ann Wilson & Emily Chivers Yochim (Allegheny College) - Mommy Apps: Keeping the Family ‘Happy’ in Digital Media Culture
2:00 PM - 3:15 pm Workshop with Paul Caplan (University of Southampton) (Community Gallery)
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee (All locations)
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm - Panel 6: Locative Games / Apps (Board Roon)
- Moderator: Ben Woodard
- Jennifer Martin (Western) - Limiting the Lived Environment: Capital and Location-Based Social Networking
- Sarah Thorne (Carleton University) - Appending Reality: Fantasizing About Play in Locative Games
- Misha Kavka (University of Auckland, NZ) - Running with the Digital: Affect and the App/prosthetic
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm - Panel 7: Ubiquity, Labour, and Data Management (Lecture Theatre)
- Moderator: Liam Young
- Vincent Manzerolle (Western) - Everything, Everywhere, Always: An Archaeology of Immediacy
- Ryan Burns (University of Essex) - Data Management vs. Real Science: Apps in the lab, and questions of the specific and the generic in scientific objects
- Atle Mikkola Kjøsen (Western) - The Apps Economy: When Money Attracts Commodities
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Break & Dinner on your own
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Keynote: Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky - Sounding Turing's Cathedral (Community Gallery)
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Reception (Community Gallery) - begins / new audience
8:30 pm - midnight - Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky - Concert / General Public

OCTOBER 19, Saturday

8:00 am - 9:00 am - Continental Breakfast (Community Gallery)
9:00 am - 10:30 am - Keynote: Alexander Galloway - Three Middles: Mediation in Networks (Lecture Theatre)
10:30 am - 10:45 am - Coffee (All locations)
10:45 am - 12:15 pm - Panel 8: Passive / Active Interactions (Board Room)
- Moderator: Liam Young
- Paul Caplan (University of Southampton) - We’re all remix artists now: everyday remix, apps and objects
- Svitlana Matviyenko (Western) - Interpassivity and Remediation
10:45 am - 12:15 pm - Panel 9: Most Excellent Platforms (Lecture Theatre)
- Moderator: Warren Steele
- Rebecca Halliday (York University) - Electric Ambience’: Mobile Photo Apps and the Mediation of Affect In and Outside of the Fashion Show Tent
- Frederik Lesage (Simon Fraser University) - Photoshop: Lives of the Most Excellent Platforms, Software and Applications
- Sara Swain (York University) - Tablets of Testimony: How Apps for Apes Illuminates the Affective Dimension of Communication
10:45 am - 12:00 pm - Panel 10: Production of Affect (Community Gallery)
- Moderator: Nandita Biswas Mellamphy
- Jeremy Hunsinger (Wilfred Laurier University) - The culture of fear and anxiety in the age of the App
- Mark Hayward (York University) - Minitel Rose: Secure Networks and Online Intimacy
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch (Community Gallery)
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm - Keynote: Ed Keller - Post-Planetary Sublime: Science Fiction and Apps (Lecture Theatre)
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm - Coffee (All Locations)
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm - Panel 11: Digital Ghettos and Frontiers (Community Gallery)
- Moderator: Dan Mellamphy
- Adeel Khamisa (Carleton University) - How Apple uses hardware to keep regulators out of its semiautonomous walled garden
- Michael Daubs & Vincent Manzerolle (Western) - Appertunity Knocks? App-centric media and the Diminishing Possibility of an Open Web
- Michael McNally (University of Alberta) - From the Pedestrian Route Production Patent to the Avoid Ghetto App: The Effects of the Dominance of a Narrative on Race in the Media's Construction of the Avoid Ghetto App
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm - Panel 12: App Economy (Board Room)
- Moderator: Sarah Roberts
- Greig de Peuter (Wilfred Laurier University) and Enda Brophy (SFU) - The Mobile Circuit of Exploitation
- Alexandre Macmillan & Damian Charrieras (McGill University) - Capitalizing on affect: Social networks and micro-transactions in mobile video games applications
- Michael William Palm (UNC, Chapel Hill) - Magic Touch: Transaction Apps and the Political Economy of Swiping
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Panel 13: Thinking Apps with Simondon (Lecture Theatre)
- Moderator: Atle Mikkola Kjøsen
- Andrew Iliadis (Purdue University) - Individuation and Infostructure: The Aesthetics of Applicative Thinking
- Gregory Kalyniuk (Trent University) - The App as Archetype: On the Technocratic Hylomorphism of the Transindividual Collective
- Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy (Western) - Planet of the Apps: Coming to Terms with our New Overlords
5:00 pm - 5:15 pm - Coffee / Snack (All locations)
5:15 pm - 6:45 pm - Keynote: Patricia Clough - The Philosophical Carpentry of the App (Lecture Theatre)
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Dinner together

OCTOBER 20, Sunday

8:00 am - 9:00 am - Continental Breakfast (Community Gallery)
9:00 am - 10:30 am - Keynote: Mark Andrejevic - Auto-Affect: Technologies of Self-Regulation in the App Economy (Lecture Theatre)
10:30 am - 10:45 am - Coffee (All Locations)
10:45 am - 12:15 pm - Panel 14: Digital Labour with Affect (Board Room)
- Moderator: Giles Whitaker
- Renyi Hong (USC) - Neoliberal laboring practices in prosumer culture
- Nick Dyer-Witheford (Western) - App Worker
- Andrew Herman (Wilfred Laurier) - Media Materialities, Affective Labour and the Moral Economy of a ‘Mobile Media Ecology
10:45 am - 12:00 pm - Panel 15: Imaginary Future in the Past of Apps (Community Gallery)
- Moderator: Christopher Keep
- Jamie Rooney (Western) - Digital Apporias and Evolutions: Posthuman Trauma, Mourning and Melancholia
- Brian Greenspan (Carleton University) - The Last App: Archaeologies of Future Media
10:45 am - 12:15 pm - Panel 16: Gaze, Tracking, Surveillance (Lecture Theatre)
- Moderator: Carole Farber
- Jennifer Hambleton (Western) - De-coding Gesture-An Analysis of the Digital Surveillance of Graffiti Writing
- Jeff Heydon (University of Toronto) - I’m Getting Arrested Alison Hearn (Western) - Apps & Influence.
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm - Lunch (Community Gallery)
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - Panel 17: New Happiness and New Solitudes (Board Room)
- Moderator: David Miller
- Tamara Shepherd (Ryerson University) and Leslie Regan Shade (University of Toronto) - Feeling ‘meh’ about it: Affective dimensions of the privacy paradox in mobile apps
- Donald Calabrese (Western) - 'And each man fixed his eyes before his feet': The Waste Land app and the new solitude
1:30 pm - 3:00pm - Panel 18: Ghostly Identities (Lecture Theatre)
- Kane Faucher (Western) - App as Non-Apparition: The Counter-Alethic Function
- Marc Maude, André Maxime, Ménard Bonenfant, Ouellet Mondoux (Quebec University, Montreal) - I Know Who You Are: You Are Here Tanya Kant (University of Sussex) - 'All your stories, all your apps, the perfect way to express who you are': Facebook apps and the commodification of personal profiles
- Tanya Kant (University of Sussex) - 'All your stories, all your apps, the perfect way to express who you are': Facebook apps and the commodification of personal profiles
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm - Panel 19: Biogamification in Postindustrial Societies (Community Gallery)
- Aaron Trammell (Rutgers University) - A Brief History of Biogamification
- William Lockett (Independent Scholar) - Game Feel for App Design: sounding the politics of skill in postindustrial societies
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm - Coffee (All locations)
3:15 pm - 4:45 pm - Keynote: Melissa Gregg - Hack for Good, or Else (Community Gallery)
4:45 pm - 5:30 pm - Closing panel, concluding remarks: Alison Hearn, concerence organizer Svitlana Matviyenko, conference organizer Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, conference organizer

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